RMS on EFF: Federal Court Slams Door on Add-On Innovation

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Subject: Re: EFF: Federal Court Slams Door on Add-On Innovation
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:42:14 -0400
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: Seth Johnson <[email protected]>


(Please forward this to your list.)

Ironically, the EFF statement endorses the thinking that gave us
the DMCA, by harping on "legitimately purchased products" as if
that made a difference.  The phrase is clearly meant to refer to
"authorized copies", which it makes the implicit assertion that
authorized copies are legitimate and that unauthorized copies are
not.

Once you accept that assumption, you will find it hard to fight
against things like the DMCA or Treacherous Computing, whose
intention is is to prevent these supposedly "illegetimate"
copies, because you can only argue about side issues such as
"add-on innovation".